Pete Chown wrote:
>
> David Corcoran wrote:
>
> > First, the iButton provides a C-API for communicating to the iButton.
>
> Ah, that is interesting. I found Windows drivers for the old iButtons,
> together with the big Java thing that will drive the Java iButtons under
> Windows or Unix. In other words as far as I could see there were no
> Unix drivers for the old iButtons. It sounds from what you are saying
> as though I have missed something. Is that right?
If by "old buttons" you're talking about non-JavaCard, yes we support
them
on all platforms, just like the Java Powered iButton (JavaCard 2.0
compliant iButton).
These older buttons have various combinations of EPROM, NVRAM, real time
clock,
digital thermometer, and password protected NVRAM. The newer Java
Powered iButton
required much more software infrastructure (mid-level) to operate. Is
this is what
you refer to when you mention drivers? We have an ANSI-C API as well as
a pure
Java API (OpenCard 1.0 and 1.1).
-Bryan Armstrong
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Dallas Semiconductor
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